53rd Annual Meeting -   
44th Voice Institute
Anaheim, CA

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AM/VI program (Adobe .pdf file)

Monday
  5 July '04  

  All Day - Faculty, ST, and LT Arrivals
  7:00-8:00 PM  Faculty Meeting in Stone's Suite
  7:00 PM - ??    Practicing SLP's Meet w/ Matt Griffin, Griffin
                              Labs (Welcome and Light Supper) - Transportation
                              leaves hotel at 7:00 PM
  8:30 PM - ??    For Grad Students and LT's - Basic Voice Science
                              Review - Jim Shanks, PhD

Tuesday
  6 July '04  

  12:00-4:00   Early Registration

  8:00-8:30   Opening Events (For Faculty, ST's & LT's)
  8:30-9:00   Overview - Speech Options following Laryngectomy
                             Ed Stone, PhD (For Faculty, ST's & LT's)
  9:00-9:30   Anatomical Considerations for Speech
                           following a  Laryngectomy
                             Dan Kelly, PhD & Jeff Searl, PhD
                             (For Faculty, ST's & LT's)
  9:30-10:30  Artificial Larynx Options and Teaching Their Use
                             Shirley Salmon, PhD (For Faculty, ST's & LT's)
  10:30-10:45   Break
  10:45-12:00   Clinic in ALD's and Laboratory Activities
                             S. Salmon, PhD et. al.  (For ST's & LT's)
  12:00-1:00   Lunch On Your Own
  1:00-2:00   Curriculum for TEP use in Speech
                             Corina van As, PhD (For ST's & LT's)
  2:00-3:00   What it takes to get Standard Esophageal Voice (SEV)
                             Jim Shanks, PhD  (For ST's & LT's)
  3:00-3:15   Non-Refreshment Break
  3:15-4:00    Team Mentoring Meetings
  4:00-5:00    New Research in TEP Use & Near-Total Laryngectomy
                        Gartner-Schmidt/Bachher  (Tentative)
  5:30-7:00    Reception Hosted by Bruce Medical
  7:00 - ??     On Your Own

Wednesday
7 July '04

  12:00-4:00   Early Registration
  All Day    IAL Committee Meetings  
  7:30-10:00   IAL Meet & Greet Reception

  8:00-9:30   Surgical/Medical Treatments for Laryngeal Cancer
                              Keith M. Wilson. MD  (For ST's & LT's)
  9:30-10:30   Getting the first sounds with SEV
                              Jim Shanks, PhD  (For ST's & LT's)
  10:30-10:45   Refreshment Break
  10:45-11:45   Curriculum for SEV use in Speech
                               Irene Hennessy, MS and Dan Kelly, PhD
                               (For ST's & LT's)
  11:45-1:00   Lunch On Your Own
     and
  11:45-12:15   Orientation for VIP'S
                             Ed Stone, PhD & Kim Burkhard-Almand, MS
                             (VIP's & Spouses Only)
  1:00-2:30   (For ST's & LT's)
                       Evaluating a Speaker's use of SEV in Speech
                             Ed Stone, PhD  
                       Evaluating a Speaker's use of an Artificial Larynx
                             Shirley Salmon, PhD
                        Evaluating Speaker's use of TEP devices
                             Melvin
  2:30-3:00   Demonstration Therapy
                             Joanne Fenn, M.S.  (For ST's & LT's)
  3:00-3:15   Break
  3:15-3:45   Demonstration Therapy
                             Jim Shanks, PhD  (For ST's & LT's)
  3:45-5:00   Hands-On 1 - (VIP, ST/LT, Faculty Team Meetings)
  7:30-10:00    IAL Meet and Greet Reception

Thursday
8 July '04

  8:00-4:00   Registration Desk Open
  8:00-9:00   Hygiene Issues & Stoma Care
                           Lynn Acton, PhD
  9:00-9:40   Welcome & Opening Ceremonies
  9:40-10:30   Keynote Address
  10:30-11:30   Break and Visit Vendors
  11:30-1:00  Lunch
  1:00-2:00   Vendors' Lunch - Exhibit Room Closed
  1:00-4:00   Intro to TEP, History, Fitting, & Troubleshooting  
                           Eric Blom, PhD
  4:00-5:00   Vendor Workshop - TBD
   5:00-6:00   Group Therapy for AM/VI Attendees
        Salmon/Reeves - Artificial Larynx Use
        Shanks/Gallant - Getting First SEV sounds
        Kelly/Searl - Developing Better SEV
        Fenn/Peereboom - Developing Excellent SEV
        van As - Learning to use Nose to Smell Again
        Irvin/Hennessey - Meeting TEP problems,
        Wigginton/Gartner-Schmidt  - Meeting Hands-Free Issues
        Melvin - Spouse Rap Session

  8:00-9:00   Hygiene Issues & Stoma Care
                           Lynn Acton, PhD (For Faculty, ST's & LT's)
  9:00-9:40   Welcome & Opening Ceremonies
  9:40-10:30   Keynote Address
  10:30-10:45   Break
  10:45-11:45   Hands-On 2 - (VIP, ST/LT, Faculty Team Meetings)
  12:00-1:00 - Lunch
  1:00-4:00   Intro to TEP, History, Fitting, & Troubleshooting  
                           Eric Blom, PhD (For Faculty, VIP, ST, LT)
  4:00-5:00   Hands-On 3 - (VIP, ST/LT, Faculty Team Meetings)
  5:00-6:00   Group Therapy for AM/VI Attendees
        Salmon/Reeves - Artificial Larynx Use
        Shanks/Gallant - Getting First SEV sounds
        Kelly/Searl - Developing Better SEV
        Fenn/Peereboom - Developing Excellent SEV
        van As - Learning to use Nose to Smell Again
        Irvin/Hennessey - Meeting TEP problems,
        Wigginton/Gartner-Schmidt  - Meeting Hands-Free Issues
        Melvin - Spouse Rap Session
        (VIP's are expected to observe ONE of the above)
  6:00-7:00    Dinner On Your Own
  7:00-9:30    Observe TEP Problem-Solving Clinic
                        (Faculty, LT's, ST's, VIP's, & AM Volunteers)

Friday
  9 July '04 

  8:00-10:00   IAL Delegates Meeting
  10:00-11:15   Break and Visit Vendors
  11:15-12:15    Lunch
  12:15-1:15   Vendors' Lunch (Exhibit Room Closed)
  12:15-1:00   News, Views, & Plain Talk
                         Newsletter Discussion
                            Pat Sanders
  1:00-2:00     Managing Grief, Anger, & Depression
                            Caryn Melvin, PhD
  2:00-3:00   Break and Visit Vendors
                       AND
                       IAL Auxiliary Meeting 
  3:00-4:00   Visitation Training
                            Tina Long
                       AND
                       Vendor Workshop - TBD
  4:00-5:00    Tobacco Education Is Rehabilitation
                           Robert Mehrman
  5:00-6:00   Group Therapy for AM/VI Attendees
        Salmon/Reeves - Artificial Larynx Use
        Shanks/Gallant - Getting First SEV sounds
        Kelly/Searl - Developing Better SEV
        Fenn/Peereboom - Developing Excellent SEV
        van As - Learning to use Nose to Smell Again
        Irvin/Hennessey - Meeting TEP problems,
        Wigginton/Gartner-Schmidt  - Meeting Hands-Free Issues
        Melvin - Spouse Rap Session
  6:00   WebWhispers Nu-Voice Club Reception
                (Hosted by Bruce Medical)
                 Pre-registration required
  7:00-10:00   WebWhispers Nu-Voice Club Banquet
                          (Supported by InHealth Technologies)
                          Pre-registration required

  8:00-9:00  Scavenger Hunt for Facts from Exhibitors
                      (For ST's & LT's)
  9:00-9:45  Care of Tracheobronchial Tree after a Laryngectomy
                               Mark Finfrock (For Faculty, VIP's, ST's & LT's)
  9:45-10:00   Break
  10:00-11:00  Hands-On 4 - (VIP, ST/LT, Faculty Team Meetings)
  11:00-12:00  Body Changes Associated with a Laryngectomy
                              Susan Reeves, M. Ed. &
                              Tammy Wigginton, M.S.
                              (For Faculty, ST's & LT's)
  12:00-1:00   Lunch
  1:00-2:00     Research in Laryngectomee Speech & Speaking
                              Searl  (For Faculty, ST's & LT's)
  2:00-3:00   Hands-On 5 - (VIP, ST/LT, Faculty Team Meetings)
  3:00 -4:00  Team Mentoring Meetings
  4:00-5:00    Developing Excellence in Speech using SEV
                           Joanne Fenn, M.S. (For Faculty, VIP's, ST's & LT's)
  5:00-6:00   Group Therapy for AM/VI Attendees
        Salmon/Reeves - Artificial Larynx Use
        Shanks/Gallant - Getting First SEV sounds
        Kelly/Searl - Developing Better SEV
        Fenn/Peereboom - Developing Excellent SEV
        van As - Learning to use Nose to Smell Again
        Irvin/Hennessey - Meeting TEP problems,
        Wigginton/Gartner-Schmidt  - Meeting Hands-Free Issues
        Melvin - Spouse Rap Session
        (VIP's are expected to observe ONE of the above)
  6:00   WebWhispers Nu-Voice Club Reception
                (Hosted by Bruce Medical)
                 Pre-registration required
  7:00-10:00   WebWhispers Nu-Voice Club Banquet
                          (Supported by InHealth Technologies)
                          Pre-registration required

Saturday
10 July '04

  9:00-11:00   Ladies Only Tea & Fashions
                             Tina Long & Sally North
  9:00-10:00   Estate Planning
                          AND
                          Vendor Workshop - TBD
  10:00-10:30   Break
  10:30-11:30   ToastMasters
                              Gary Miner
  11:30-1:00   Lunch and Visit Vendors
  1:00   Vendor Exhibits CLOSE
  1:15-2:30   IAL Fun Show and Raffle
  2:45-5:00   IAL Board of Directors Meeting
                          (Observers Welcome)
  6:00- 7:00   No Host Cocktails
  7:00-11:00  IAL Banquet & Dance

  8:00-9:00   Team Mentoring Meetings
  9:00-10:00  Hands-On 6 - (VIP, ST/LT, Faculty Team Meetings)
  10:00-10:15   Break
  10:15-12:00   IAL TEST - Almand/Wigginton
                            (For ST's & LT's)
  12:00-1:00   Lunch On Your Own
  1:00-2:00   Training Laryngectomees for Hospital Visitations
                        Salmon (For Faculty, ST's, LT's)
  2:00-2:30   Closing of Voice Institute" - Certificates,
                          CEU forms, and Evaluations.
                          (For Faculty, ST's, LT's)
  2:30-2:45    Break
  3:00-5:00    About Peer Support: IAL Meeting & Fun Show
                        (For Faculty, VIP's, ST's, LT's)
  5:00-6:00   Voice Institute Faculty Meeting
  6:00-7:00   No Host Cocktails
  7:00-11:00   IAL Banquet & Dance